Research & Ranking

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Research & Rankings – BRICS

Tahseen Khanday Solution Sales Manager, Elsevier South

Asia

QS University Rankings

BRICS 2015 Launch

Seminar

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How important are rankings? Students

Source:

University selection by students (IDP Research)

85% of students find university ranking as

important in their selection of institute to study

33% of students find university ranking as the

most important factor (number 1 factor, followed

by 21% employer recognition, etc.)

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“We aim to have 10 Japanese institutes in the top 100 THE World University Ranking in the next decade”

Mr. Shinzo Abe ,Prime Minister - Japan

How important are rankings? Excellency's take note

“We have less to trumpet about the quality of our institutes. None of our institutions are ranked in the top two hundred positions…a vast majority…are mired in mediocrity” April 10, 2015 convocation address at Mizoram University

Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Honorable President of India

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How important are rankings? Funding and development

Russia: The goal of the program is to provide that by 2020 not fewer than five Russian universities will be in the first hundred of leading world universities QS World University Rankings

China: Action Plan for World-Class Universities initiated in 2014 aims at building world class universities based on their position in THE or QS ranking. More funds will be allocated for those universities achieving a rank within the top 300

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• Rankings provide an outside view, reducing complexity a first indicator “the symptoms”

• Transparent performance metrics provide an inside view making in-depth analysis possible – “the recipe..”

• Use rankings, metrics & faculty discussions to identify areas of strength & weakness, to drive change towards excellence

Rankings & Performance Metrics

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BRICS Ranking - QS

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World Research Outlook

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Data Set : 2010 to 2014 Source : www.Scival.com

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BRICS Nations Research Output Data Set : 2010 to 2014 Source : www.Scival.com

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Top Research Output Institutions of BRICS Nations

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Moscow State University, Russia

Tsinghua University, China

Data Set : 2010 to 2014 Source : www.Scival.com

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

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Top Research Output Institutions of BRICS Nations

Name

Scholarly Output

Citation Count

Citations per Publication

International Collaboration

(%)

Universidade de Sao Paulo 58407 262459 4.5 29.4

Tsinghua University 54092 274531 5.1 23.9

Moscow State University 24547 99965 4.1 35.0

University of Cape Town 12794 101991 8.0 53.6

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 10898 56411 5.2 25.3

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 6875 31567 4.6 27.1

Data Set : 2010 to 2014 Source : www.Scival.com

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Reputation vs. Research Excellence – an experiment

Source: Scopus data up to June 29th, 2015; *FWCI - Field Weighted Citation Impact

Question:

Can we see some correlations from our data and QS World University ranking 2014?

Ranking 2014 University Scholarly Output FWCI Internal Collaboration (%) Category

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 39201 2.43 41.8

2 University of Cambridge 46953 2.13 52.9

3 Imperial College London 38077 2.16 56.8

4 Harvard University 120699 2.43 39.1

5 University of Oxford 52195 2.26 53.6

22 National University of Singapore 38307 1.77 53.1

28 The University of Hong Kong 21472 1.6 52.6

31 The University of Tokyo 56756 1.37 29.7

31 Seoul National University 41060 1.29 26.4

36 Kyoto University 38339 1.26 28.3

47 Tsinghua University 54092 1.25 23.9

114 Moscow State University 24547 0.81 35

132 Universidade de Sao Paulo 58407 0.95 29.4

141 University of Cape Town 12794 1.74 53.6

222 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 6875 1.19 27.1

World Top Institutes

Top Asian Institutes

BRICS Top Institutes

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1. Benchmarking (2010-2014)

Source: Scival data as on 29th June 2015

All top 5 institutions have a high

Field Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)

4.

Harvard

1. MIT

5. Oxford

2. Cambridge

3.London

141.Cape Town 22.NUS

28.Hong Kong

31.Tokyo

47.Tsinghua 31.Seoul 36.Kyoto

222.IIT Bombay

114.Moscow

132.Sao Paulo

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2. Benchmarking (2010-2014)

All top 5 institutions have a

High degree of International Collaboration

Source: Scival data as on 29th June 2015

4.

Harvard 1. MIT

5. Oxford

2. Cambridge 3.London

22.NUS

28.Hong Kong

141.Cape Town

31.Tokyo

47.Tsinghua

31.Seoul

36.Kyoto

222.IIT Bombay

114.Moscow

132.Sao Paulo

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How to boost reputation?

• Make sure you are internationally connected

• Strive for unique research excellence areas

• And listen to Socrates..

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National research assessment and benchmarking reports • UK REF, UK BIS reports • ERA (Australia) • FCT (Portugal) • VQR (Italy)

September 12, 2011

Global University Rankings • QS rankings • Times Higher World University Rankings • US News rankings (Arab Region) • China University Rankings

Initiatives and reports (select examples) • DST • UK Royal Society • Science Europe • European Commission, FENS, HBP, Kavli

Foundation, RIKEN BSI • World Bank • EuroStemCell, Kyoto University • Snowball Metrics

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Each year

• 1 million article manuscripts received by ~2,000 journals (all offer Open Access options)

• 350,000 new articles published, in addition to 11M existing articles

• 2,000 new books published

• ScienceDirect: 750M digital article downloads

• Scopus: 56M records, 22,000 titles, 5,000 publishers, 700M citations

• SciVal: 75 trillion metrics values

• Pure: current research information system: >200,000 researchers supported

• Mendeley: 3M users globally

• Grants:7,000 sponsors, 20,000+ active opportunities, ~5M awarded grants

• Patents: >93m records, 100 patent offices

• Compounds: 22M compounds, 35M reactions; 3.3M molecular facts

• Drug information: 16k branded drugs; 12k generic drugs

Elsevier has a unique vantage point on Research

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CONFERENCES

80K events

6.7M records (12%)

Conf. expansion:

1,000 conferences

6,000 conf. events

400k conf. papers

5M citations

Mainly Engineering

and Physical

Sciences

BOOKS

512 book series

- 28K Volumes

- 1.0M items

81,000 books

- 472K items

Books expansion:

120K books by end

of 2015

- Focus on Social

Sciences and A&H

PATENTS

24M patents

from 5 major

patent offices:

• UK

• US

• Japan

• Europe

• World

JOURNALS

21,398 peer-reviewed journals

373 trade journals

• Full metadata, abstracts and

cited references (references for

post-1995 only)

• >2,800 fully Open Access titles

• Going back to 1823

• Funding data from

acknowledgements

Physical

Sciences

7,456

Health

Sciences

6,834

Social

Sciences

8,042

Life

Sciences

4,509

What content types does Scopus include?

Source: Scopus title list (November 2014)

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Scopus continue to grow daily – article growth year over year

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5,00,000

10,00,000

15,00,000

20,00,000

25,00,000

30,00,000

35,00,000

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Physical Sciences Health Sciences Life Sciences Social Sciences

Source: Scopus data November 2014

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2014

• Conference expansion program complete

Q1 2015

• 75k books in Scopus and extension of project end date

• Elsevier archive processed in Scopus

Q2 2015

• Release 2014 journal metrics

• 2nd tier publisher archives processed

Q3 2015

• 6M pre-1996 docs with references in Scopus

Q4 2015

• Complete books project (120k books)

• FundRef ontology

2016 and beyond

• Archive project complete (2016)

• Funding opps

• Patents

• Datasets

2015 Scopus content and data roadmap

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